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“Eyes see and hearts perceive….”

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

Shuchi Khanna’s works on display from Jan. 5

THOUGHTS ON CANVAS: One of Shuchi’s works from her latest collection.

NEW DELHI: Her painting titled “Women through the Ages” has been selected and showcased in a book brought out by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and is part of an exhibition travelling round the world. Another of her works adorns the walls of Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Dehi.

Delhiites can now catch a glimpse of her works at an exhibition titled “Eyes See, Hearts Perceive”, a collection of paintings by Shuchi Khanna curated by Elizabeth Rogers. Organised by ICCR in collaboration with Alliance Francaise de Delhi, the three-day exhibition at Gallerie Romain Rolland, is to be inaugurated by ICCR Director-General Pavan K. Varma on January 5. Paintings from the collection will be exhibited later at the Nehru Centre in London, from February 11 to 15 and then at the Tagore Centre in Berlin. Shuchi, a Delhi University graduate and a qualified commercial artist, heads the Department of Fine Arts at Sanskriti School in the Capital.

About her current work, the artist says: “The heart perceives, the mind soaks up and stores, an artful metamorphosis begins. This journey becomes soulful through the aesthetic path paved by such experiences that overflow spontaneously on to the canvas, their true essence recalled and reflected in splashes of paints and colour. I seek to capture the ethereal, the sublime, which is the portrayal of life itself.”

Shuchi has held several solo exhibitions and taken part in various group shows. She has also organised workshops and participated in camps with many prominent artists.

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